**Lieutenant Eve Dallas returns in Dark in Death, by J.D. Robb, the
#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense, and takes on a case
of death imitating art...
**
It was a stab in the dark.
On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown,
someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan's neck, then
disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times
Square. To Chanel's best friend, who had just slipped out of the theater
for a moment to take a call, it felt as unreal as the ancient
black-and-white movie up on the screen. But Chanel's blood ran red, and
her death was anything but fictional.
Then, as Eve Dallas puzzles over a homicide that seems carefully planned
and yet oddly personal, she receives a tip from an unexpected source: an
author of police thrillers who recognizes the crime--from the pages of
her own book. Dallas doesn't think it's coincidence, since a recent
strangulation of a sex worker resembles a scene from her writing as
well. Cops look for patterns of behavior: similar weapons, similar MOs.
But this killer seems to find inspiration in someone else's imagination,
and if the theory holds, this may be only the second of a long-running
series.
The good news is that Eve and her billionaire husband Roarke have an
excuse to curl up in front of the fireplace with their cat, Galahad,
reading mystery stories for research. The bad news is that time is
running out before the next victim plays an unwitting role in a
murderer's deranged private drama--and only Eve can put a stop to a
creative impulse gone horribly, destructively wrong.
From the author of Echoes in Death, this is the latest of the edgy,
phenomenally popular police procedurals that Publishers Weekly calls
"inventive, entertaining, and clever."
